Sir John Walter Pollen, 2nd Baronet of Redenham (6 April 1784 – 2 May 1863) was a British Conservative and

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politician. He was the eldest son of Sir John Pollen, 1st Baronet of

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, Hampshire and educated at

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(1799) and

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(1803) after which he entered

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to study law (1806). He succeeded in 1814 to the

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and the Redenham estate, upon the death of his father. Pollen was elected MP for

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at the 1820 general election and held the seat until 1831 when he did not seek re-election. He returned to the seat in

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and held it again until

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, when he stood but was defeated. He married in 1819, Charlotte Elizabeth, the daughter of Rev. John Craven of

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, Wiltshire, but left no children. Upon his death in 1863 he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his nephew Sir Richard Hungerford Pollen, 3rd Baronet. Redenham passed to his widow and on her death in 1877 to the son of the 3rd Baronet, also Richard Hungerford Pollen, later the 4th Baronet.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pollen, John Walter 1784 births 1863 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Members of Lincoln's Inn Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1820–1826 UK MPs 1826–1830 UK MPs 1830–1831 UK MPs 1835–1837 UK MPs 1837–1841 Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain People from Appleshaw

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